Re: #1 On my list of pet peeves for 1999!

>At 09:02 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Spike wrote:>>>an old problem: the century naming convention. the 17th century is the>>16 hundreds. thats made me crazy since forever>>I'm planning to renumber the years, after my coup, from the agricultural>revolution (call it 8000 BC), to get rid of all those poor people living>backwards: e.g. Plato/Platon, b. 428, d. 348.>>Damien Broderick>